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Ivan Nikitin, Sr. developer

Main job: https://xenarius.net

Pet project: https://www.visualwatermark.com

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Comment · 7 years ago

Yes, the website starts to build slower with growing number of pages. I'm using Metalsmith static site generator for https://www.visualwatermark.com/ The website currently have about 400 pages and it takes 60-70 seconds to build it. Part of the problem is Metalsmith itself - the code in some parts is awful. I had to make some changes to make it work faster. Unfortunately, it's impossible to solve the underlying problem - you have to build the whole website at once, while WordPress builds pages on-demand.

Also static generators aren't as convenient as WordPress is. I'm OK working with markdown or hacking the code, but it's too difficult for my wife, for example. So, she's running a WordPress blog.

Commenting is also better on WordPress. She used to use Discuss for commenting and people are more to reluctant leave Discuss comments than to leave WordPress comments. I believe that's because you don't have to register to leave a comment in WordPress - just type your email and you're ready to go.

Comment · 9 years ago

My site hosted on S3 is also running.

Comment · 9 years ago

GC's CDN doesn't cache files bigger than 4Mb. No Windows VMs. Bound to AWS for these 2 reasons.

Comment · 9 years ago

It's unclear whom will they charge: writers or readers?

Comment · 9 years ago

do you have experience with other stacks (e.g. Play, Node, Ruby)? What's your experience with them?

Comment · 9 years ago

@pbiggar Hi, Paul! Could you elaborate on poor scaling and concurrency bugs, please? From my understanding Closure's functional nature and immutability should minimize concurrency bugs.

Comment · 9 years ago

There are companies who build commercial products from that open source projects. The most obvious example is format converters. There are tens of products build around free ImageMagick and ffmpeg.

Comment · 9 years ago

The BCC was never profitable enough with constantly declining revenues. Patrick ended 2016 with $120,000 in debt and working in Stripe to pay it down.

Probably, revenues started to decline after bragging about them.

Comment · 9 years ago

Will do:)

Comment · 9 years ago

From my experience copying a feature is about twice cheaper than trying different approaches. You may not figure out a good way to implement it until you build first version and let people try it. You may need re-iterate to find perfect implementation. The copy-cat will come later to see what you've done and will implement the good solution without iterations.

The copy-cat may have more developers too.

Comment · 9 years ago

You're talking about acquisition channels. Community, blog or webinars are great channels, but there are also organic search, paid search, traditional advertising, native advertising, bundling, paid promotions, upselling. If the copy-cat is better at these, their product will out-sell yours.

Comment · 9 years ago

Most of the businesses in the list are very easy to copy. There are neither rocket science, neither patents to protect them, neither big money to pay lawyers to protect their work.

Knowing how well the product sells, you can copy it piece-by-piece by saving a lot of time trying different approaches. Author of original product already did all the hard work guessing what will work the best. You just come, copy and profit from his work.

Comment · 9 years ago

Good for customers but not for business. Competition tends to minimize margins and profits. While main business goal is to make money, competition is against business goals.

Comment · 9 years ago

Why people share their revenues? Every product can be copied. If you know revenue, you know what product you should copy.

Comment · 10 years ago

Google quite frequently lose photos people store with their services: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/photos/QuKiYj... https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/photos/bNSFIy... https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/photos/7Xf0Cj6_... https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/maps/njdwFPaq...

Personally, I lost photos of my kid's Sep 1.